In a characteristically cruel turn of events, on Thursday, the Trump administration announced an overhaul of the Department of Health and Human Services that will likely make it easier for doctors, nurses, and other health care workers to withhold their services on religious grounds. Acting HHS Secretary Eric Hargan,…

As part of the Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, the FBI is investigating a Russian banker who may have illegally given money to the NRA in order to help elect Donald Trump.

My excitement for the forthcoming season of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars knows no bounds, as does my general excitement for House Minority Leader, San Francisco’s own Nancy Pelosi. Imagine my sheer delight when I heard that she’ll be appearing as a guest judge. On Drag Race?! Nance?!

As one of his first orders of the new year, the very night he taunted a world leader on Twitter by insinuating simultaneously the possibility of nuclear war and that of his own dick working, President Donald Trump announced that he would produce a “MOST DISHONEST & CORRUPT MEDIA AWARDS OF THE YEAR” on “Monday at 5:00…

On January 21, 2017, a day after the inauguration of Donald Trump, millions of women and allies gathered in Washington D.C. and in cities around the world to march in protest of the election of a racist sexual predator. One year later, and countless inhumane and astonishing acts of policy-based violence later, women…

The White House is reviewing a new, horrible policy that, if implemented, would allow health professionals to refuse to treat transgender patients and to perform abortions based on religious or moral grounds.

Outgoing Republican Senator Jeff Flake gave another speech on the Senate floor today denouncing his party’s president, elaborating on the same “daily sundering of our country” he mentioned last time. A day after a similar op-ed by his colleague John McCain ran in the Washington Post, Flake defended the free press…

Just days after calling Haiti and all of Africa “shithole countries” and saying he doesn’t want people from there in America, how exactly did our very racist president spend Martin Luther King Day? According to the Washington Post, he did not attend a memorial event honoring the civil rights leader. Instead, Trump…

I was afraid this moment would come. When I clicked on this Washington Poststory about Trump’s blood-sucking sycophants and the lengths to which they’ll go to curry the dumb baby’s favor, I felt a dull thud of recognition in my stomach, like a pebble landing—plunk—in a pond. It turns out the poorly-bleached anus and…

Donald Trump, a man who kicked off his presidential campaign by claiming Mexican immigrants were rapists and criminals, told reporters at a press pool event in Florida on Sunday night that he is “not a racist” and is in fact “the least racist person you have ever interviewed.” The latter statement could be true,…

Three days from the one-year anniversary on which Barack Obama made the surprise decision to commute her 35-year prison sentence, Chelsea Manning has confirmed that she is running for senator. She will be running as a Democrat in Maryland against 74-year-old career politician Ben Cardin.

US foreign relations are in the toilet today because a person who looks and performs like a literal shit hole casually dismissed dozens of nations as “shithole countries.” As widely reported, Trump allegedly asked in a meeting with senators this week, “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come…

Eight months after her release from prison, Chelsea Manning has submitted a federal election filing to run for US Senate in Maryland as a Democrat, the Guardian reports. She would run against incumbent and senior Senator Democrat Ben Cardin, who will be seeking a third term. Cardin, previously a ten-term Congressman,…

Donald Trump is racist as shit, but the world already knew that. So when he called a few countries populated primarily by black and brown people “shithole countries” and asked, “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” I was disgusted, but not especially shocked.